https://nypost.com/2021/06/09/eric-adams-shows-off-nyc-home-after-suggestion-that-he-lives-in-nj/
During New York City's mayoral election in 2022, news and media sources stopped at nothing to spread gossip about the large number of candidates. Sources like the Politico article linked above knew the kinds of subjects that New York voters would be particularly about, like a mayoral candidate's residence if it wasn't in New York. Potential voters would think of a mayoral candidate as more suspicious if he wasn't even living in the city he was campaigning to run.
Politico reported that they had done research into some car registrations of frontrunner, Eric Adams, and noticed that they were associated with an apartment complex in New Jersey. This brought attention to social media postings that noticed that he would never sleep at the residence in Brooklyn hat he would claim on documents he was living at.
Politico's largely left-leaning policies were not supportive of Adams' mayoral campaign and "competed for the public's attention" by posting "scoop"-related content without asking for a comment from Adams himself. This information that Politico was revealed as false by a New York Post interview conducted by Eric Adams, in which he invited the press on a tour into his Brooklyn home.
This was done in efforts to fight against the disinformation spread by news sources trying to lower his popularity amongst New Yorkers that would oust him for not living in New York. Although the tour allowed him to prove that he lived there by showing the press around his kitchen and living room, the New York Post's article is similarly fishy in its content becuase Adams seems to leave out a lot of details that would probably confirm that the residence he is showing around is his son's apartment that he owns.
https://deadline.com/2023/07/writers-strike-hollywood-studios-deal-fight-wga-actors-1235434335/
Deadline is one of the film industry's vital trade sources, sharing news ranging from box office numbers, celebrity/pop culture news, and reporting on the statuses of films in production. The ongoing WGA/SAG-AFTRA strike has halted the film and television industry and has affected the output of publications like Deadline. Particularly in the beginning of the WGA strike, much of the reporting that Deadline was involved in was purposefully downplaying the severity of the lasting affects the strike on the economy.
The article can be seen as more of a "persuasive information campaign" in efforts to get its readers to side against the strikes rather than factually reporting on the situation. It "blends facts and interpretations" of the situations to make its reporting biased by stating that the strikes won't have much of an impact, therefore the strikes are unnecessary. Deadline's line of thinking allows them to switch up the narrative by saying the impact will be small, which tells its readers that the reason for the strikes themselves similarly lack impact.
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